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Slavic-speaking peoples entered Europe in the 6th century ACE and spread throughout Central, Eastern, and Southern Europe.  Traditional village culture had rich and widely-varied folk arts.  Much of the traditional context for folk art has been lost with modernization, urbanization and globalization.  However, the folk arts continue on in new contexts. 

BYOB... Bring your own bottle!  We have added 4 hydration stations in the library.  When filling your bottle, you have your choice of filtered water or water that has been prepared through reverse osmosis.  If you forgot your bottle, you can enjoy delicious filtered water through the bubbler drinking fountain.

Hydration stations are available at the following locations in Davidson Library:

Digitial library pioneer and map collector David Rumsey has endorsed the Map & Imagery Laboratory's (MIL) bid to acquire the Fairchild Aerial Surveys collection from Whittier College.

As part of our efforts to make more of our collection available to students and researchers who are not GIS experts, MIL has been experimenting with various mechanisms to publish data online.  Here is our first public example:  a mosaic of Fairchild Aerial Surveys images that were created in 1927:

The late Union Oil executive William Moran was also an extreme opera enthusiast, and during his teen years of the 1930’s he began a lifelong passion of collecting recordings and memorabilia from the time period known as the golden age of opera. Housed permanently in UCSB’s Special Collections department in Davidson Library, it’s one of the world’s largest such collections, and a small portion will be on display there until September 7th.

The Atlantic Cities takes a look at where the US Olympic team calls home.  The resulting maps, one of hometowns and one of current residences, show the spatial distribution of athletes and how they cluster around training facilities and major urban areas

As one of several leading collections of its kind, the Colección serves as the university's major source of information on the cultural heritage and history of Chicanas/Chicanos and Mexicans in the United States.  The collection is named after Tloque Nahuaque, an Aztec god who took several forms. In his appearance as Quetzalcoatl, he was the patron god of learning and knowledge.

The library coffee cart has moved from the back entrance to the front entrance of Davidson Library.  It now offers an expanded selection of merchandise including more food and beverage options, study supplies, USB drives, headphones, and more.

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In addition to a full career in the field of petroleum exploration, discographer, author and library benefactor William R. Moran (1919-2006) pursued a lifelong interest in early opera recordings and artists, especially those artists who recorded for the Victor Talking Machine Company.